Beauveria bassiana sensu lato

Zha, Ling-Sheng, Kryukov, Vadim Yu, Ding, Jian-Hua, Jeewon, Rajesh & Chomnunti, Putarak, 2021, Novel taxa and species diversity of Cordyceps sensu lato (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) developing on wireworms (Elateroidea and Tenebrionoidea, Coleoptera), MycoKeys 78, pp. 79-117 : 79

Beauveria bassiana sensu lato

Hosts.

Many insect orders, including Coleoptera (e.g. Elateroidea and Tenebrionoidea spp., Humber and Hansen 2005; Reddy et al. 2014; Sufyan et al. 2017); inhabiting soil, plant surfaces and plant internal tissues ( Bamisile et al. 2018).

Distribution.

Widely distributed.

Note.

Beauveria bassiana sensu lato includes a large complex of cryptic species with wide host ranges, including many Coleoptera families ( Rehner et al. 2011; Imoulan et al. 2017).